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GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a collection of GTK-base software that provides the desktop environment GNOME-Shell. This is a very general tag that should only be used for questions referring to GNOME in general, and not a specific component.

I'm currently visiting a foreign university, where I'm using an Ubuntu system. The Desktop has something in the upper-left corner called Activities. I have to click it or mouse through it to do most ...

Installed ubuntu gnome. I enabled power button action as hibernate in tweak tool.But when I press power button nothing happens. How can I hibernate?I had used linux mint and hibernation worked well.
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I have some problems to get redshift working under Gnome. In Unity there is a taskbar-icon I can use to switch it off and on. Unfortunately there is none under Gnome. Whenever I start the redshift app ...

i3 does not launch Ubuntu's startup applications by default. It will only execute what is added to its configuration. Which command or script do I have to execute do start all the startup applications ...

I have found recently that if I click on the top bar of a window, and release and then move my mouse, it drags the window even though I have released. Is this a bug or by design? And how can I make it ...

Is it possible to either install the application launcher and application switcher (alt + tab in GNOME 3) from GNOME 3 or something similar in xfce? I like to create a portable and light-weight Ubuntu ...

Two days ago I was using my computer as usual, when I noticed that the commands I used in mate-terminal were not saved in the history. I tried installing gnome-terminal. But it does the same. I was ...

Since I have changed to Ubuntu Gnome 15.04, with Gnome Shell, and Gnome 3.14, from Ubuntu 15.04 with Unity, I have noticed that although I am able to activate desktop notifications for some sites and ...

I use two mice, but I don't like the scroll direction on the left-hand one so I used xinput to swap scroll-up and scroll-down specifically on that mouse (xinput set-button-map "Primax Kensington Eagle ...

Yesterday I configured Compiz. I went in "the design of the window" and disabled Ubuntu Unity Plugin. Opened message that it need disable other module. I accepted it and panels disappeared. Desktop ...

Unfortunately the installation of Gnome 3.18 didn-t work on 15.04, although I followed their terminal commands precisely. I-ve got an american Keyboard and a failing Unity window manager. How can I ...

I'm new migrant from windows to linux and I've chosen ubuntu 14
but I faced too many problems that I can't deal with.
I can't work on unity because it's sucks and I can't point to small icons on the ...

I am working with two different versions of Eclipse. Due to conflicts between the plugins I decided to install both of these versions separately, which works perfectly fine except one little issue. I ...

I've installed gnome-session-fallback and compizconfig-settings-manager
I can even see that the compiz flashback option on logon.
However, even when selected, Ubuntu always goes back to it's default ...

I wanted to make screenfetch start at terminal startup.
But I realized that I changed the shell from bash to screenfetch and of course gnome terminal doesn't startup.
I have installed MATE terminal ...

When I was running the Unity shell I was able to do Fn + F1 and get my machine to suspend, however now that I am running Gnome Shell, when I do this keyboard shortcut, absolutely nothing happens, so I ...

I previously asked this question on how to get NetBeans IDE to pin to docky under Unity, however now that I have moved to Ubuntu Gnome 15.04 this no longer works to get NetBeans IDE to pin. So that is ...

I recently cloned my hardisk containing my /home partition and have now started booting via the clone. Unfortunately when I log into Gnome I am booted back to the login screen after about 10 seconds. ...

I am running Ubuntu Gnome 15.04, and every spell checker on the machine, and language etc, is in English (US), however I want to change that to English (UK), and I want to ad support for Russian so ...

I have recently installed Ubuntu Gnome, and found that unlike in Unity, in the Gnome Shell I am unable to tell my machine to suspended any sooner than 15 minutes, however for security reasons I want ...

I have recently installed Ubuntu Gnome with Gnome 3 running on it. I have installed various programs on it which in Unity would have a little icon which would go on the right on the Unity panel, such ...

I have recently installed Ubuntu Gnome which has the latest version of Gnome 3 running on it, and I have noticed that on windows there are no minimize buttons, and no maximize buttons, although I can ...

I'm using Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 with GNOME 3.14.4-0ubuntu1 installed.
Skype is version 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
From time to time, whenever I have a network change or network restart (which happens a ...